| And then when then I die
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| I feel I shall say
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| I have not understood
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| I have not understood any of this
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| My eyes are still coaldark
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| I have not understood
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| Around and in my eyes the tiny flecks
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| Of swirling crippled confused lights
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| And to my heart I will whisper
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| Softly quietly
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| «There is no death there is no death»
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| (And goodbye to you all)
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| Under the gorgon grinnd arches
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| Of London’s great vaults
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| I have not understood
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| Under the sunpuckered roofs of Kathmandu
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| I have not understood
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| Along the soulstoned streets
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| Of Lower
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| And of Higher Germanie
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| I have not understood
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| Leipzig: blackeyed pain and loss: she
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| I have not understood
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| In Clare near I The empty lakes are open in the distance
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| And too close is the faminereatchingroad
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| All these are ghosts
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| There I have not understood
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| (In the Heart of the Wood
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| Oh there have I understood)
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| I rested at the temple of Great Black Time — Her
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| And did not understand
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| Though animalbled fleshmarbled rivers ran in Her honour
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| His buckled body in blood
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| Returns to the prebirth poise
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| Spreadeagled like starfish —
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| There in His eyes:
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| Incomprehension mute pain disbelief what
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| Blood there meant sorrow trickles there
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| This I could not understand
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| I bend the pages of yet another book
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| And in its lines Great Black Lines
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| I have not understood
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| Please gramerey pray for me And oh goodbye sweetestheart
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| The wind roars in the nearness
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| And there in my heart
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| And all the clouds are spiralling towards us Descent indeed to the centre of it all
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| Skipping lightly and lying truly
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| This we shall understand
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| I hope…
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| Wet bent humped trees
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| The great ones — there
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| On the lapped shore
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| Dai Ichi
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| There also I do not know
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| This is all unknowable
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| And as the dust covers
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| My empty eyes
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| You shall read in these foolish gapes
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| Oh that I have not understood
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| (But if you look for the stag and the cross conjoined
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| There on my arm look there
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| There I have understood very well)
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| Now you are all fading
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| All fading
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| As my age creeps on As This Age stumbles on Fires in the earth
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| Fires in the sky
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| Fires in our hearts
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| Fires everywhere
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| The black eyes
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| Already blacken
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| And this I have not understood
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| Not peace
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| But a sword
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| This and He Unfortunately
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| I have understood
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| Under the bowered greenwood tree
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| When first I lay
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| Bright starre with Thee
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| Under the velvet branches dear
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| When sun and moon both came so near
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| Under the starlit open dome
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| Under the starsharp pointed lights
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| Under the starloved greeny earth
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| When first I wanted to hold You
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| And all the world halfdead and halflive
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| Spat into my mouth
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| Bluesea bitterwater
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| And I am almost dead
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| And I have not understood
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| Under the rain and teeth of gods
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| Under the pain and sleeping liddy eyes
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| Under the brokkd wetful heaven
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| If you are there
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| If you are there
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| If you are there
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| Then I am singing with my eyes
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| If you are there |